Reviewed by James Benton
Little Million Doors: An Elegy
Chad Sweeney
Nightboat Books, April 2019
$15.95, 80 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1643620008
Like a hurricane of images, or a tsunami of grief, ...
Review: Little Million Doors: An Elegy by Chad Sweeney
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Poetry
I measure every Grief I meet
as if I could tether it, tune it,
fair weather it—successor
to loss, where cobweb
& feather are sewn together,
where barb & bramble tattoo
untruths to the wound’s
memory ...
Self-Portrait as a Line from an Emily Dickinson Poem by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Sidney Wade
Birnam Wood
Poetry by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona
Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (July 27, 2018)
$21.00, 96pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1912561186
Birnam Wood is ...
Review: Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona
Book Reviews, LAR Online
When there was no one to call it weather, no animals
to feel the wet on their pelts, nothing at all to make
a complaint,
when what moved was the water. When what moved
was the land itself. What moved before that, ...
Unfeathered by Marlys West
LAR Online, Poetry
“Doing what I set out to do, perform activism with ink.”
—Rigoberto González
Two friends are chatting over lunch in New York. One is a native of Texas, the other is from California. Both are Chicano ...
Portrait of the Poet as Critic (& Thinker) by Francisco Aragón
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Nonfiction
When she returns to her garden, it fills her with sorrow.
She didn't know it would become wild so soon. She saw
she might never coax back its ruined form. Only the animals
scavenging for bulbs seemed familiar. How ...
Memento Mori: Mother, After My Treatment by Jennifer Franklin
LAR Online, Poetry
Review by Alexandra Lytton Regalado
His Tongue a Swath of Sky
Poetry by Francisco Aragón
momotombito press, 2019
The Companion Thread
Francisco Aragón excels at bringing people together; having founded ...
Review: His Tongue a Swath of Sky by Francisco Aragón
Book Reviews, LAR Online
this ceaseless going you
follow when you
follow a stream
back into the hills
purls and moils
wrinkles into flats its
glassy aim
breaking to re-
shape every slope it is
bound to flow
and crumple each
try to make ...
Hitch by Derek Sheffield
LAR Online, Poetry
Family Music
In the dream I have of my mother,
I take her hand in both of mine,
but hers isn’t actually a hand.
We’re long-lost chums in a recording studio
where the drum kit’s ruined,
the snares ...
Two Poems by Alan Michael Parker
LAR Online, Poetry
